How will you know what your students have learned?
Assessment is a tool that can be carefully crafted to analyze what it is that your students are learning. Art educators can track what their students are learning aesthetically by facilitating and listening to class discussions, debates or group dialogues. You can also gain insight about what your students have learned by paying attention to their artistic process and the way that they continuously analyze their work during the process. This way you can see what new techniques they are trying for the first time as well as how regularly they step back and think about how they are creating meaning. You can also compare students work at the beginning of the unit or semester to their work at the end and see how they have grown as an artist.
What does successful learning look like?
Successful learning in an art classroom looks like greater understanding of art across all areas: analysis, study, production, etc. A student who has grown across a variety of creative areas; explored styles, mediums and techniques; and created meaning through visual communication has learned successfully.
What kinds of evidence and feedback do you and your students need and how can you get it?
Art educators can gain evidence and feedback by:
What different assessment strategies will you utilize in your unit plan?
In my unit plan I will base assessment on each student's growth as an individual. I will most likely use their portfolio as a testament to their learning and exploration. I will also consider their participation in discussion and analysis of artworks as a component of assessment. It is important that I provide students with a rubric so that they understand what it means to excel in the course as well.
Assessment is a tool that can be carefully crafted to analyze what it is that your students are learning. Art educators can track what their students are learning aesthetically by facilitating and listening to class discussions, debates or group dialogues. You can also gain insight about what your students have learned by paying attention to their artistic process and the way that they continuously analyze their work during the process. This way you can see what new techniques they are trying for the first time as well as how regularly they step back and think about how they are creating meaning. You can also compare students work at the beginning of the unit or semester to their work at the end and see how they have grown as an artist.
What does successful learning look like?
Successful learning in an art classroom looks like greater understanding of art across all areas: analysis, study, production, etc. A student who has grown across a variety of creative areas; explored styles, mediums and techniques; and created meaning through visual communication has learned successfully.
What kinds of evidence and feedback do you and your students need and how can you get it?
Art educators can gain evidence and feedback by:
- Discussions
- Debates
- Group dialogues
- Using a WIDE variety of assessment instruments
- Final artwork
- Craftsmanship
- Comparison of first portfolio piece to last
- Pen and paper test
Students can gain evidence and feedback by:
- Having assessment direction, introductory materials and questions provided by the teacher
- Comparing their own work to exemplars provided by the teacher
- Having a rubric to work from and know what is expected of them
- Self-analysis
- Portfolio
- Gallery-walk with peer comments
- Pen and paper test
What different assessment strategies will you utilize in your unit plan?
In my unit plan I will base assessment on each student's growth as an individual. I will most likely use their portfolio as a testament to their learning and exploration. I will also consider their participation in discussion and analysis of artworks as a component of assessment. It is important that I provide students with a rubric so that they understand what it means to excel in the course as well.
I like seeing that you included a variety of assessment strategies. A rubric is very important to share with students at the beginning of a unit so that they are aware of what they are aiming at. Of course a portfolio is also critical because it represent an accumulation of their work. A journal that includes their thinking and experimental playing is also a good assessment tool because it makes thinking visible.
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